New USB drive formatting

[debiani386]

Thilo Six wrote:
> Dave M wrote the following on 01.05.2007 20:32:
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>> But when I did $mkfs and when I do $dmesg I see a warning that there is no 
>> partition table:
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>
> When it complains about the partitin table i would start from scratch and
> make a new one with fdisk or cfdisk.
> (You would like to use this drive to store your data (maybe backups), right?)
>
> Generally spoken your approach is right. But it seems this drive allready
> came with an broken partition table.
>
> bye Thilo
>   
im wondering if gpartd could do all that?
--cj